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• (00:00) - Intro and Apple Earnings
• (01:44) - Epic Games and Other Stories
• (24:35) - Age verification
• (32:41) - iPhone 17 dummies
• (41:11) - Google Gemini
• (44:03) - "Portable" Mac mini
• (50:20) - John Giannandrea
• (55:21) - Controversy Corner
• (01:04:28) - Slow, slow, Snapshot